Phrase Hound found 39 phrases and 22 compound words that contain bets. The most common are listed below. Open bets in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 39
- hedge one's betsTo place bets with a third party in order to offset potential losses.
- prop betsplural of prop bet: Clipped compound of proposition bet.
- proposition betsplural of proposition bet: A bet on some aspect of a game or competition that is not the main bet of the game or the prize of the competition.
- safe betsplural of safe bet: Something that is almost certainly true.
- sports-betsthird-person singular simple present indicative of sports-bet: To bet on the outcomes of sport matches.
- best betsplural of best bet: The best proposal or plan.
- bets outthird-person singular simple present indicative of bet out: To be the first in a round to put money in the pot.
- bets roundthird-person singular simple present indicative of bet round: To lay bets of equal value against nearly all the horses in a race, so as to stand no great risk of losing.
- bets upthird-person singular simple present indicative of bet up: To make one's bet
- blocking betsplural of blocking bet: A small bet intended to discourage other players from placing larger bets.
- catch betsplural of catch bet: A bet made for the purpose of entrapping the unwary by subterfuge.
- continuation betsplural of continuation bet: A bet made in a round of betting, after raising in the previous round of betting, usually with a weak hand.
- fair betsplural of fair bet: An assumption that is likely to be true.
- forced betsplural of forced bet: The small blind, the big blind, or the ante.
- if-betsplural of if-bet: A type of bet placed with a bookmaker wherein the bettor has money on a horse in a subsequent race under the condition that his horse in an earlier race also wins.
- side betsplural of side bet: A bet on some aspect of a game or competition that is not the main bet of the game or the prize of the competition.
- spread betsplural of spread bet: A spread betting bet or investment transaction
- string betsplural of string bet: Action where a player first calls, bets or raises a certain amount and then adds more. It can be used to gather weakness/strength tells from opponents before deciding how many chips to add into the pot. It is not …
- value betsplural of value bet: A bet placed with the intention of being called in order to extract more money from a likely worse hand.
- blocker betsplural of blocker bet: A relatively small bet, chiefly on the river, designed to discourage a player yet to act in the betting round from raising.
- all bets are offIndicates that a future event appears uncertain, especially one that before seemed more certain, and where any prior agreements are no longer valid
- slap betsplural of slap bet: A wager between two people (especially children) that involves no money, but in which the winner is allowed to slap the loser as hard as possible.
- bouncing Betsplural of bouncing Bet: Saponaria officinalis, the common soapwort.
- sucker betsplural of sucker bet: A wager having a very poor expected return relative to the odds of winning.
- bets the farmthird-person singular simple present indicative of bet the farm: To be absolutely certain, to have no doubts.
Compound words 22
- alphabetsplural of alphabet: The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- sorbetsplural of sorbet: Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, eaten as dessert or between courses of a meal.
- TibbetsA surname originating as a patronymic or as a matronymic.
- rabbetsplural of rabbet: A longitudinal channel, groove, or recess cut out of the edge or face of a plank of wood or other material; especially, one intended to fit another member to form a joint.
- sherbetsplural of sherbet: A dessert of frozen fruit juice with a dairy product such as milk added; a sorbet with dairy ingredients.
- alephbetsplural of alephbet: The Hebrew alphabet.
- barbetsplural of barbet: Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes.
- BetshamA hamlet in Southfleet parish, Dartford borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ6071).
- Corbetsplural of Corbet: A surname from French.
- Derbetsplural of Derbet: Alternative spelling of Dörbet (“subgroup of Mongol people in Mongolia”).